S. E. L. F. Group Curriculum

Every outpatient and inpatient mental health setting, child protection service, parenting program, domestic violence shelter, school, and homeless shelter today must contend with the issue of a past history of exposure to trauma in their clients.

The S.E.L.F. Psychoeducational Group Curriculum is a good way to start, addressing the fundamental problems surrounding exposure to violence without needing to focus on specific individual events within a group setting.

S. E. L. F. Group Training

S.E.L.F. group trainings are offered by two cofounders of the Sanctuary program, Joseph F. Foderaro, L.C.S.W. and RuthAnn Ryan, M.S.N. Training experiences are tailored to the needs of the organization.

Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice

Curriculum

A Trauma-Informed Psychoeducational Group Curriculum

S.E.L.F. represents the four nonlinear, key areas of recovery that provide an organizing framework for the complex problems presented by trauma survivors, by families with problems, and by chronically stressed organizations.

On July 13, 2017 two members of the House of Representatives - Rep. Mike Gallagher, Republican from Wisconsin and Rep. Danny K. Davis, Democrat from Illinois submitted a House Resolution 443 recognizing the importance and effectiveness of trauma-informed care.

Public Indifference Is Trump's Asset on the Path to Autocracy, This is a clear moment of crisis for Americans, says Atlantic senior editor David Frum. “We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States in decades,” he explains in this video. What can people do when Congress refuses to check the president, civil unrest fuels his agenda, and he uses Twitter to stifle dissent? Read more in The Atlantic’s March 2017 cover story, “How to Build an Autocracy.” m the Atlantic's, David Frum. read more ...

The Sanctuary Movement

You might think that here we are referring to the Sanctuary Model but no. When we were developing the Sanctuary Model, people from many countries were providing sanctuary for immigrants and with recent events, many cities - including Philadelphia - are underscoring the need for sanctuary cities. This page provides resources to learn more about these ideas and practices, historically and in the present.

CAREGIVERS documentary film, released in 2015, takes us on a journey into a world the public has not seen. The film depicts the dramatic emotional costs experienced by professional providers such as doctors, nurses, social workers, firefighters, and first responders who rescue, assist, and when possible heal the injured and traumatized. Through dramatic stories, CAREGIVERS probes the emotionally risky aspects of professional caregivers.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs Study) may turn out to be the most important scientific finding of the late 20th century, opening up windows of opportunity that could vastly improve mental health care, physical health care, and virtually all of our current major social problems. The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we have a Major Public Health Epidemic that is actually getting relatively little attention in public discourse and has yet to seriously impact policy.

Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is featured in an upcoming documentary which focuses on confronting childhood PTSD in america’s shell-shocked cities. Traveling to Philadelphia and Oakland, this episode chronicles the stories of children shaken by violence and adversity and asks not “What’s wrong with you?” but “What happened to you?” and “How can traumatized children and neighborhoods heal?”

"Restoring Sanctuary" is a roadmap to recovery for our nation's systems of care. It explores the notion that organizations are living systems themselves and as such they manifest various degrees of health and dysfunction, analogous to those of individuals. Becoming a truly trauma-informed system therefore requires a process of reconstitution within helping organizations, top to bottom. A system cannot be truly trauma-informed unless the system can create and sustain a process of understanding itself.

Upcoming Events, Key Websites, Etc

"Community Meetings can be integral to schools becoming whole-student-centered and trauma-informed."

SanctuaryWeb.com

SanctuaryWeb.com is your resource to gain insight into The Sanctuary Model. Research and purchase S.E.L.F Curriculums. Browse and read published articles, as well as, purchase books written by Dr. Sandra L. Bloom.

Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University

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